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- 841: Depression of the 1930s
- ... profound effects. As world trade fell off, countries turned to nationalist economic policies that only exacerbated their difficulties. In politics the depression strengthened the extremes of right and left, helping Adolf HITLER to power in Germany and swelling left-wing movements in other European countries. The depression was thus a time of massive insecurity among peoples and governments, contributing to the tensions that produced World War II. Ironically, however, the massive ...
- 842: The Cold War
- ... Union and the United States both plundered the German V-2 rocket sites for materials and personnel. In 1946 the MVD was responsible for the rounding up of 6000 scientists from the Soviet zone of Germany and taking them and their dependents to the Soviet Union.2 The political conflicts of the 1930's and World War II left many educated people with the impression that only communism could combat economic ...
- 843: The Civil War
- ... to die for the Union was Captain Constatin Blandowski, one of many immigrants who earlier had fought for freedom in Europe and then joined Lincoln's army. Born in Upper Silesia and trained at Dresden, Germany, he was a veteran of democratic struggles - a Polish revolt at Krakow, the Polish Legion's battles against Austria, and the Hungarian fight for independence. Some nationalities contributed more than their share of Union soldiers ...
- 844: The JFK Assassination: Conspiracy or Single-Gunman?
- The JFK Assassination: Conspiracy or Single-Gunman? Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator of Germany during World War II, once said, "The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it." Although this may sound ludicrous, we can see many example of this in the world's history. One example ...
- 845: The War in Vietnam
- ... levels immediately jumped beyond 300,000 and by 1968 the number exceeded 500,000. Supporting these ground troops was a tremendous air bombardment of North Vietnam that by 1967 surpassed the total tonnage dropped on Germany, Italy, and Japan in World War II. Gen. William Westmoreland, the U.S. commander in Vietnam, pursued an attrition strategy designed to inflict such heavy losses on the enemy that its will to continue will ...
- 846: Immigraton Laws
- ... The century following 1820 may be divided into three periods of immigration to the U.S. During the first period, from 1820 to 1860, most of the immigrants came from Great Britain, Ireland, and western Germany. In the second period, from 1860 to 1890, those countries continued to supply a majority of the immigrants; the Scandinavian nations provided a substantial minority. Afterwards the proportion of immigrants from northern and Western Europe ...
- 847: Is The Internet Bring A New Era Of American Cultural Imperia
- ... web pages, databases, and Usergroups. The key for using the Internet is the knowledge of where and how to gain information. Singapore is not alone in its attempts to control the content of the Internet. Germany attempted to prosecute CompuServe for its availability of pornographic Usenet groups. The American government has encouraged self-regulation through U.S. designed filter software (e.g. SurfWatch) which currently has technical problems. Problems with filtering ...
- 848: Cryptography
- ... developed before early in the 20th century. During World War I, American troops used native Indians to send messages over the radio, which could only be understood by other native Indians, and absolutely nobody in Germany could understand it. Also in World War I (most cryptographic algorithms are developed for wars), the Playfair algorithm is developed by the Allies, the key, like in the Vigenere cipher, is based on a little ...
- 849: Acid Rain
- ... panic shoot (M. 15). Large land areas which used to be covered with forests are now gone, dead or dying (Baines, 21). Around the 1980s more than half Kotto 2 of the trees in Germany had signs of acid rain damage (Edmonds, 14). Now it is known that acid rain is one of the biggest contributing factors in the death and deterioration of nature. Lakes support thousands of species of ...
- 850: Multi-regional Continuity: The Fossil Evidence
- ... 200,000 years ago is further evidence of multi-regional continuity. Sometimes, it would seem, evolution worked in reverse in determining the developing morphology of the human skull... Finally, to a spot north of Stuttgart, Germany. The Steinheim skull was located in a gravel pit and has been dated to roughly 250,000 years ago, though this date is still much open to debate (1987: 227). In spite of being badly ...
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